Gutenberg addendum: Small ciphers
The program I wrote for the Project Gutenberg crib experiments also looked for pieces of text that fit into the entire 13-character cipher.
This cipher has many repeated symbols: One symbol repeats three times, and three other symbols repeat twice. Nevertheless, the program found over 2,700 unique bits of text that still fit “as is” into the the cipher text. Here are some interesting examples:
“My name is: afraid it is rat”
“My name is: I have here fair”
“My name is: in the cement I’m”
“My name is: in the desert is”
“My name is: of the defeat of”
“My name is: of the defect of”
“My name is: of the newer tow”
“My name is: of these men Tom”
“My name is: on the defeat of”
“My name is: plenty to the po”
“My name is: south the house”
“My name is: sweets to the so”
“My name is: those were not r”
“My name is: twenty to the to”
Here are the full results if you want to take a look:
- constraint-search-13-data.txt: All found plaintext that fit into the cipher text. Record format: Book file name, plain text, zkdecrypto non-unique score, zkdecrypto unique score
- constraint-search-13-data-uniq-with-counts.txt: All found plaintext that fit into the cipher text. Shown in descending order of how many times the same plaintext was found. Record format: Number of occurrences, plain text, zkdecrypto non-unique score, zkdecrypto unique score
- constraint-search-13-data-uniq-sorted-by-zkscore.txt: Same as above, but sorted in descending order of zkdecrypto non-unique score. Record format: Number of occurrences, plain text, zkdecrypto non-unique score, zkdecrypto unique score
Note: “zkdecrypto non-unique score” is the traditional zkdecrypto score, which adds up frequencies for all n-grams, including duplicates. “zkdecrypto unique score” is very similar but it avoids counting the same n-grams more than once.
Again, we are faced with the question: Is any of these solutions the correct solution? This remains a mystery, because there are so many possible solutions to choose from, and there’s no objective way to isolate the correct one without compelling corroborating evidence.
One thing about the 13 character cipher that is interesting to me is the fact that it contains so many repeated symbols for such a short cipher. In fact, neither the 408 nor 340 contains as many repeated symbols within only 13 characters. The smallest chunk of the 408 that has as many repeated symbols as the 13 is this 22-character chunk:
This smaller 15-character chunk of the 340, on the other hand, contains as many repeated symbols as the 13:
Compare that to the 32-character “map code” cipher, which has too few repeated symbols for us to ever find a verifiable solution without some other corroborating evidence:
I still have hope that a solution can be found AND verified for the 340 character cipher. Solutions for the 13 and 32 character ciphers are probably beyond our reach, unless some extremely compelling evidence is found.
If you have a look at my blog, maybe you can tell me if I am on the wrong track. The 13 letters, I believe, breaks down to: HOLLINGSWORTH, which was my uncle’s name. Before you passed me off as a cuk, please have a look at the blog.
It is my belief that the Zodiac Killer was 2 people, my uncle and my cousin. Please look. The physical description of my uncle, Al Guy Hollingsworth matches the description of the suspect given by survivors and SFPD. My cousin matches the poster made of the John’s suspect, who “rescued” the mother and baby.
Having lived with my uncle in the summer of 1970, I have STRONG reason to suspect him. My cousin Eddy’s physical appearance matches the poster made of the suspect who “rescued” the mother and baby, exactly.
Tell me if you think I am wrong.
Thank you
My name is…… A E N @ 8 K 8 M 8 + N A M
@ =ZODIAC CROSSHAIR SYMBOL AKA = ALSO KNOWN AS
@ AKA
My name is …..ZODIAC ALSO KNOWN AS E N 8 8 M 8 + N M
The 8 balls are vowels, E N A O M U + N M
the other symbol looking like E N A O M U T N M
an upsidedown “T” is a T A M O N U M E N T
My name is …. ZODIAC AKA A MONUMENT
The 8 balls come from the Riverside letter Bates had to die.
B ates I3 ates I 3 ates I 3 8s I 888
why eights
Z is the 26th letter…..2+6=8
H is the 8th letter
the poem written on the desk was signed…. rh
food for thought……..H 8 ………… Hate………haight st
A monument is a type of structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, or simply as an example of historic architecture.
Find the monument ….find the Zodiac………….Washington and Cherry st. …..hmmmm
or to commemorate the dead……. as in a cemetary or maybe the name of a rock band….Grateful Dead…!!!!
My name is …. ZODIAC AKA A MONUMENT